I was shocked after installing GentooX Home to NOT find a copy of VI. I felt like naked and alone I didn't know what to do. Please rectify this. No Linux is complete without it. You don't have to go all out with vim, just gold ole vi will suffice.

I have to agree with jcouzin on this. Linux without vi, is like Windows without Internet Explorer. Its second nature to any experienced linux user(with the exception of those emacs freaks), when editing a file to use vi.

I can't believe nano is even being compared to vi. Comparing nano to vi, is like comparing roller skates to a Rolls Royce. To put it simply: vi, especially vim, is a mature, powerful editor. Nano isn't. Anything nano can do, vi can do better, and once you learn a few basics, vim is just as easy to use as nano.

I'm not saying to remove nano. It's good for newbies to have a simple editor they can use out of the box, without learning commands. It helps to ease the learning curve, but once they experience the power of vi, it's very hard to go back.

Emacs might be an okay compromise between those requiring the power of VI and the simplicity of nano.

Please don't turn this into a flamewar between emacs and vi. I recognise that emacs is a powerful editor, but I hate haveing to use the alt/meta key too often.

The deps for vi are met in gentoox. I copied the vi binary over from my mdk install to gentoox, and it works nicely. I had to do it though, because nano was driving me insane.

I sincerely hope the omission of vi was an oversight. Taking account of some of the other stuff that has no place on a home distro, the it looks like gentoox is aimed for, I think vi would be a harmless enough addition.

I must admit its a pretty bad habit for some experienced users
The first thing I did when I installed gentoox was type
vim (filename)

then I was like.. whoops,
vi (filename)

whoops again...
nedit (filename)

and then I remembered the ShaLLax interview and he prefers pico/nano
so finally,
nano (filename) -- Success!

and while in there I was pressing escape :wq!

Next thing I have to do is install vim
shouldn't take too long I did it on my other shells.

I don't mind whats default with install but it does feel weird not having vi in linux, its been common in all distros I've used so far.
Its a matter of preference for users though, and taking that extra time to set up your shell with your fancy prompt and personalized environment settings also includes setting up ur default editor even if it requires you to install it.

nobspangle wrote:
The only thing worth knowing about VI is that if you type